Teaching at the Tang Museum

As part of its mission, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery provides Skidmore College students and faculty with first-hand experiences of original works of art and objects of material culture. The art works and artifacts on view here, drawn from the collections of the Tang and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in South Hadley, Massachusetts, will provide material for students’ research and writing this semester in Skidmore art history classes taught by Lisa Aronson, Nixi Cura, Mimi Hellman, and Penny Jolly. We have loosely grouped the works according to their classroom use.

As you view the objects in the Winter Gallery, we invite you to consider the many differences between studying a thing in person and seeing it reproduced in books, online, or in slide and digital projections in the classroom. What can the human eye perceive that the computer scanner or camera might miss or distort? How do those differences alter your experience of what you see, and how you look at it?